Haydock option for One For Arthur after Aintree fall

Derek Fox and One For Arthur (centre) clear the last to win the 2017 Randox Health Grand National from Cause Of Causes (right) with Blaklion (left) at Aintree Racecourse on April 8 2017 Picture by Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images

One For Arthur may return to Merseyside over Christmas after he fell on his comeback at Aintree Racecourse over the weekend.

The 2017 Randox Health Grand National winner had not run since his triumph in the world's greatest steeplechase due to a tendon injury.

But he made his return back at the scene of his finest hour at Aintree on Saturday - although he came down at the third fence in the Grade Two Many Clouds Chase over the Mildmay fences.

His eagerly-awaited comeback was a bit of an anti-climax as he unseated rider Tom Scudamore in the 3m1f contest, which was won for a second successive year by Brian Ellison's Definitly Red.

The Lucinda Russell-trained nine-year-old is set to go again before the end of the month with Haydock's Tommy Whittle Chase on December 22 or the Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase at Wetherby on Boxing Day the options.

Peter Scudamore, trainer Russell's assistant and partner, said: “He’s fine, perfect. We’ll just have to find out what we’re going to do with him now. We’ll probably go to either Haydock or Wetherby, but he’s in good form.

“He was a bit fresh and he just wasn’t concentrating. He took off too soon.”